Status Updates From Fibonacci's Liber Abaci: A ...

Slowing down now to practice using Al-Khwarizmi's method on some of these Algebraic and Almuchabalaic problems.

Been reading this absolute tome for the last couple weeks. Very interesting work thus far. I am struck with two realizations: that problems dealing with proportions have either two or more solutions (as some had), exactly one solution ( as some also had), or no solutions at all. Obviously as there were always one more variable than the known relations of the variables (contemporarily termed ‘equations’) that’sthecase

Other than fraction notation, and writing answers above the problems, it's interesting to see how little the basic algorithms have changed. I haven't gotten too far into chapter 5, so we'll see how division goes...